Life

RIC_0015-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column,
     or cutting a piece of stained glass in the
     construction of something much bigger than 
     ourselves.

        Adrienne Clarkson

By your example

Candles 1 (2013, 4.13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world is changed by your example,

not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

Eternity

Full Moon, Toronto, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I saw Eternity the other night,
     Like a great ring of pure and endless light.

        Henry Vaughan, The World

Life

Bird House 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Life does not require a material abundance; 
it requires only a material sufficiency.

Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers

War

RIC_4095, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

Love

Swan, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Maya Angelou

Dawn

RIC_3417-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Death does not extinguish the light.

It puts out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Emptiness

RIC_8022-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion. 

Tibetan Buddhist Saying

Arts

RIC_3919-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The arts draw us deeply into the parts of ourselves 
     our most urgent questions and desires lodge. 
     These desiring questions have as their source and end, God. 

        Wendy M. Wright

Fall in love

RCC_6335-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Fall in love in such a way 
that it frees you from any connecting. 

Rumi

Hope

RIC_4321-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When it seems too much... 

Hold fast to the dearest hopes embedded in your life with others. 

Or rather, let those hopes hold you...

Tom Reynolds

In God's Image

RIC_6139-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


All humans, friends and enemies alike, 
have the same dignity, deserve the same respect, 
and are worthy of the same compassion
because they are, all alike, made in God's image. 

Wendell Berry, Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Life Abundant

RIC_4418-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     To be free of indifference would be 
     to have life more more abundantly.

        Wendell Berry, Blessed Are the Peacemakers

At Home

Distillery Distract 6, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The spiritual life is 

about becoming more at home in your own skin. 

Parker J. Palmer

Shedding

Earth Hour 7 (2013, 3. 23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

From the beginning,

the key to renewal has been

the casting off of old skin.

Thich Nhat Hanh, 

Living Buddha, Living Christ

Singing Freedom

RIC_4022-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou,

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

God Who Is

_DSC6567, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is the whole of nature,

extending from the beginning to the end 

that constitutes the one image of God Who Is.

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Peace

RCC_9009, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Until there is peace between religions,

there can be no peace in the world. 

Hans Kung

Kingdom of God

Baptism Font (2013, 2.24), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We do not go to the Kingdom of God, 

but the kingdom of God comes to us.

Thich Nhat Hanh, 

Living Buddha, Living Christ

Faith

RIC_4124, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


In Buddhism, faith means confidence in our and others' abilities
to wake up to our deepest capacity of loving and understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ